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Time. >> but the search in the national forest had become something more ominous than a lost hiker incident. meredith had been last seen in the company of an unsavory looking stranger, and law enforcement was about to identify him. the tip came from john tabor, an atlanta businessman. he was watching the continuing news coverage of missing meredith during his morning workout. >> when they started giving the description of the person of interest, my ears really perked up. i think i just turned white at one point. i felt the blood leave my face. >> tabor, the businessman thought, that has to be ...

Better and he realizeed the errors of his ways and he was ready to get back to work. >> start elled but thinking past, tabor tried to lure hilton to an agreed-upon location with the promise of money. >> i was trying to play it cool, like i didn't know anything about what was going on. i told him that i would give him a check for $800. we discussed a place to leave the check. >> were you baiting that place he knew to come and show up? >> it was certainly my objective to get him to a place where authorities could apprehend him. >> the trap was set at a building owned by tabor where hilton had li...

Belongings and moved on. >> put all of his stuff in the van and took off. >> yes. >> john tabor was relieved to see hilton in his rear-view mirror but he was nonetheless puzzled by the change that had come over the man. >> when you're around someone for nearly ten years and it's uneventful, nothing ever happens that suggests a demonic personality that apparently materialized somehow. >> tabor had part of the gary hilton picture, a criminal defense lawyer added more. sam rail had defended hilton years back on some minorish beefs. >> we did a jury trial on a drug case, possession. he was accused...

You have a living pet, a missing owner and a phone somewhere in the vicinity of this guy you believe is her abductor. >> yes. while the agents are searching in the area of the convenience store, they look in a dumpster. it was in the dumpster we found meredith's identification, her purse, bags of bloody clothing. at that point, we felt that this was not going to turn out as we had hoped. >> the purse, three bloody fleece tops. agent kegel and his boss gave meredith's parents the grim update. then, around 8:00 that night, still friday, not far from where tabor had set the trap for hilton, more ...

Ghoulish presentation? >> yes. he was very animated, very talkative. >> tabor fired hilton who then turned around and claimed tabor owed him money. by mid-summer 2007, the siding guy said he feared for his safety. >> he finally threatened to kill me. he made it very clear. >> tabor took those threats seriously. >> i immediately armed myself with a glock 9 millimeter and an ar-15 assault rifle. started driving a rental car so he wouldn't know what car i was in. >> he was your boogieman. >> absolutely. to not know what was happening, somebody maybe assassinate you. >> when the former boss went t...